Team India needs to enjoy cricket – Cricket News Update
Having led the Indian side to their first home series win against the English tourists, Captain http://www.senore.com/Cricket/MS-Dhoni-c2028 admitted that his team had been going through a long streak of defeats, and Friday’s success was a much needed win for the Men in Blue.
During his post-match comments in http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Hyderabad-c792, Dhoni said that it is always important to win matches.
“If you’re not winning games, you don’t enjoy playing cricket and our losing streak was a bit too long,” he added. “We actually played quite well during the ODIs in England and our batsmen got us the runs. But the rain there made it hard for our spinners
to grip the wet ball and the seamers too were easy to score of since the ball would come on to the bat better after it rained. Tonight there was no dew and our bowlers showed that they can win us games if the conditions are in their favour.”
2011 comes as one of India’s most busy years, which kicked off with their tour to http://www.senore.com/Cricket/ICC-World-Cup-2011-c100625) World Cup, where the Men in Blue trailed on to securing the title victory.
The championship was then followed up with another heavy commitment under the Indian Premier League (IPL), soon after which the side flew to England for their first away series, since the world cup.
However, to the side’s despair, India suffered a disappointing streak of defeats at the hands of the Poms, across all formats of the game.
Team India are now facing the English on their own home-turf, and have already marked an imposing reprisal to their dues in http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Australia-c746.
However, for now, Skipper Dhoni and his youth-oriented squad will focus on retaining a winning streak, having marked an imposing 126 runs win on the series opener on Friday, in Hyderabad, thanks to the Captain’s exceptional batting performance which added
87 runs to his side’s massive total of 300 runs.
The two sides will now face each other in the second ODI fixture which, scheduled to kick off on October 17, 2011, at the Feroz Shah Kotla, in http://www.senore.com/Cricket/Delhi-c780.
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